decay photos

[beige_alert]

Cory Doctorow suggested the RSS feed for keyword “decay” on Flickr. I’ve tried this and I am amazed at the beautiful photos that regularly come up.

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[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

OK, I click on the link and I get a page full of XML source with Christmas-tree syntax-based colors. I can cut and paste the URLs of images out of it, but I don't think that's how I'm supposed to see the pictures. How am I supposed to use the link?

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

That's an "RSS feed," and you are intended to use it by pasting it into your "feed aggregator" and viewing it through the aggregator. Dan Bricklin has a very nice introduction to RSS (http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html) if you're not familiar with it.

I use the (free) web service Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) for RSS, and I've been very happy with it. At this point, I mostly use RSS through Bloglines and hardly remember to look at sites without RSS feeds.

Upon poking around Flickr, I see that you can also just go to this link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/decay/) with your browser to see the same images that the feed delivers.